Starlink 11161

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/60124

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-11161
  • NORAD 60124
  • 2024-118M
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 11161 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Labrador Sea

Orbit ends over Canada

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 11161 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Starlink 11161, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Starlink 11161?

At 11:58:16 AM UTC Starlink 11161 was over the Pacific Ocean (32.8° S, 173.9° W), 371 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starlink 11161?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 24, 2024.

Can I see Starlink 11161?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 11161, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
SpaceX (Seattle)
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceX (Seattle)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
960 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
11:58 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
11:58 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
32.8° S, 173.9° W
Altitude
371 km
Speed
7.69 km/s (27,673 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 12:23 PM UTC
Inclination
53.2°
Orbital period
91.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.7
This orbit
359 to 361 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,270 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 10, 2026, 2:45 PM, 21 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 10, 2026, 2:45 PM, 21 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 11161, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 11161 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 11, 2026, 5:52 AM, 5 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Starlink 11161 shares its launch, 2024-118, with 19 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-11201Communications satellite
STARLINK-11198Communications satellite
STARLINK-11112Communications satellite
STARLINK-11210Communications satellite
STARLINK-11203Communications satellite
STARLINK-11177Communications satellite
STARLINK-11127Communications satellite
STARLINK-11164Communications satellite
STARLINK-11119Communications satellite
STARLINK-11157Communications satellite
STARLINK-11162Communications satellite
STARLINK-11160Communications satellite
STARLINK-31846Communications satellite
STARLINK-31840Communications satellite
STARLINK-31813Communications satellite
STARLINK-31845Communications satellite
STARLINK-31838Communications satellite
STARLINK-31785Communications satellite
STARLINK-31792Communications satellite

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Starlink 11161359 to 361 km92 minutes960 kg2024
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 10, 2026, 2:45 PM, 21 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-11161",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-118M",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-10T14:45:30.178368",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.69712568,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00015,
  "INCLINATION": 53.1586,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 89.3067,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 81.8032,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 278.3156,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 60124,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 13661,
  "BSTAR": -0.0000025474,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000898,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}